Foreign workers at BP oil factory in Algeria are abducted: reports

Staff at the British Petroleum site in the town of Amenas, near the Libyan border, have reportedly been kidnapped,

An exchange of fire between police and Islamist militants in southern Algeria[2] on Wednesday, resulted in the deaths of one police officer and two British security guards, French news website L'Express reported.

Early reports said the assailants abducted several foreigners including five Japanese nationals and a French citizen as part of an attack on the site run by British oil giant, BP[3].

A Western diplomat told AFP that British and Norwegian staff were also abducted.